Redmond, Wash., Oct. 15: U.S. technology giant Microsoft Corp. said Thursday it had recovered " most" of the lost consumer data from the sidekick network system.">
"We have determined that the outage was caused by a system failure "that created data loss in the core database and the back-up," Roz Ho, corporate vice president of Premium Mobile Experiences, wrote in a posting on the Sidekick Web site.
"We rebuilt the system component by component, recovering data along the way."
On Saturday, T-Mobile said the system had crashed and the data was likely gone for good, InformationWeek reported Thursday.
But that worst-case scenario turned out to be not the case as Ho wrote the company had "recovered most, if not all, customer data for those Sidekick customers whose data was affected by the recent outage."
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